February
While February seems to have flown by, here is a brief update on the going on's in our household. February 2, we watched the Superbowl 2020, with the San Francisco 49ers (20) against the Kansas City Chiefs (31). While I am still not a football fan, I will say the halftime show with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira was quite spectacular! Girl Power for sure! On the same day it was groundhog day and Wiarton Willie predicted an early spring. The mayor had a mix up when presenting the results and the groundhog looked sad on stage when we saw the news feed. However, the tradition continues.
The teachers have been striking this year, so there have been sporadic strike days off which means many playdates for the kids. Easton mostly with Nathan, Lucas and Matthew, and Hadley has had a few with Rachel.
Valentines, Brian's Birthday and Family day were all the same weekend this year. On Valentines Day Brian was sick, so we stayed in and made heart shaped home made pizza's. For his birthday we had some family over for cake. Then on Family Day we went to see Sonic the Hedgehog in the theatre.
We introduced the kids to Indiana Jones and now Easton thinks that we should play a game of drinking milk shots. Too funny.
Easton is really into making paper planes right now, so I think there are about 17 around the house. I keep finding them. He has a really fun book that provides all the paper, the instructions on where to cut, fold and tape if necessary. Then he launches them over the railing and sometimes he retrieves them and sometimes I find them when cleaning up. One day I will miss these little reminders that I have children in the house.
We were finally able to get the kids out skiing and we had a lovely day. Easton is really comfortable and easily flies down the blue hills, while Hadley is a little more cautious and enjoys the green hills just fine. They both do the chair lifts well, so it was an enjoyable day for all.
We had a fun day meeting up with Shawn, Violet and Ethan for a lunch, and a games afternoon. It is fun to see how fast babies grow!
I met up with my friends Barb, Margo and Melissa on three separate breakfast dates, it was nice to catch up.
Registration has begun for spring summer activities for the kids, so the organization for that is always a good time.
Brian has been travelling a little too, including a LAN party weekend with his friends in London.
At the school we have been juggling parent council meetings, breakfast programs, pink shirt days, pizza days, Samosa Sales, and other such fun things. However our normal pancake Tuesday had to be cancelled as we were not allowed to ask for any help what-so-ever from the teachers. Mostly we do all the work anyway, but any disruption to their schedule is not allowed. So this, and the Character assembly had to be cancelled.
I found this new to us company called The Book Lady, she runs a used book shop out of her basement. It looks like a library! You can take used books to her and as long as they are in decent condition she will buy them from you. Usually somewhere around $0.50. While you don't get a lot of money for bringing books there, you do get to buy books for cheap. This means that we can buy new to us books for $5 or less. Usually around $2. Hadley is in love with this little business!
Since I have two really amazing readers in my house, I love this! Don't get me wrong, we do go to the library and almost always have the 50 book limit out, since they both read a chapter book ever night or every other night usually. However, it is still nice to sometimes buy a few books to have on the shelf.
While I am sure there was more that happened, this is the brief update.